concerns. >> expeditious reunification of families and further be it resolved they send a copy of the resolution to the honorable dianne feinstein and barbara boxer united states senator and the nancy pelosi minority leader house of representatives and is housing. we have one presentation tonight from christine wong who will report on this. commissioners, i have a presentation so if you wouldn't mind moving to the right or

left. >> good evening, commissioners i'd like to take this opportunity to provide an overview of the new comer pathways we've established in the district for a number of years and the system of supports and the work we've can you think in the last couple of months given the anticipated increase in the number of unaccompanied children in san francisco.

okay first of all, san francisco unified school district k through 12 has 12 newcomer pathways at the emergency room level see chinese ed center those are set sites where students are there from 120 years and troigsdz to a site and mayor ed lee at the middle school there's is visitacion valley and 4 sites it's a new comer comprehensive site where students are in a shrlthsd program and have others courses within the site and at the high school level lincoln and marshal and sf international and sf high school there's so much of the middle school it's a pathway within a comprehensive site that allows the students to have the street light program with

advanced course work for their particular needs and levels. a common question that's been requested and looking at the august engrossment the trend we were able to pill enrollment capacity reports in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 and that's during the month of august 2013-2014 we already see an increase over 2 hundred and 50 students between last year and this year. we don't necessarily at this point keep day other than the number of immigrant constrain we have resources like foster youth wire using our existing data systems what we have and looking at the number of newcomer students from central america

and mexico you see between 2013 there was a significant increase among all four criticize and at the this point as of yesterday those are the number of students arriving through the educational center through those countries. and also in evaluating the existing data we look at the data available from the office of ruveng stllt the data birthdays and zipping neighborhoods so look at bitter dates we sofrtsdz the list there were 12 had had children those children were detained at the border and released to sponsors the sponsors reside in san francisco. we don't know whether exactly

those students are enrolled in the district of 3 hundred children puss residing in san francisco the majority of those students were high school age children. we also had zip code information of the 3 hundred accomplice children there are significant numbers in the very sincerely, natural and the ingallon side and visitacion valley and bayview hunters point. we take a look at given all the data what we zeroed in on capabilities at the high school level so again those are the 6 pathways we have in the district. as of yesterday those are the first column is our current enrollment and the second column the capacity and the third column the list of number of is

that a so knowing that most the high school students resides in the excelsior district we have the capita of the school district we have hundreds and 68 is that a available. we know we're going to be planning for additional seats at the agent pathways as well this will hopefully be able to as we have students coming in to fill those seats. now kevin is going to describe the system of support for new comer students. and good evening commissioner and superintendant because most of the support actually all the support exams from the student support and thank you, chris teen for meeting with several members of the department to workout this plan and discuss the support system for

unaccompanied immigrant children for each pathway at the high school level we've got a support that can be described by the did remember first, the student gets the placement they arrive and meet with the school counselor they talk about the post secondary options and resources and referrals. the city hall counselor communicates with the pathway teachers to make sure that the take care is aware of the academic support that the student may need. the take care may refer the student to the high school wellness program where each school has a vibrant wellness center it they may receive mental health as well as legal and housing and others social services like connected to the youth and contribution we talk about that as homeless but

services that are available for unaccompanied mirandize tutoring and uniforms and immediate enrollment and backpacks and transportation and refrltz. there's 23 entry points for youth in transition families in i did not get and transition has an point of contact this is a family social worker or the high school wellness crossroad. this will help the unaccompanied cabinet children with case management tutoring services mefrpt and advocacy in the event that any of the unaccompanied children are places in foster care connected to the school partnerships that include academic support and have connections with legal certifies

and legal support services for san francisco legal educational network. while this graph represents a support cycle it shows and the new comers can access those services at any point >> i wanted to describe the preparation so far we're gathered the data to help the unaccompanied children engrossment and evaluate our new comer system of support connected with our city partners with mayor's office and the supervisor campos office and the office of immigrant affairs and explore grants from private foundations to support those students. moving forward we will continue to enhance the the new comer system to address the needs of the cabinet constrain through the development and collaborate

with school partners to coordinate social services and monitor the simplest has needed. we also planning to hire a staff person to coordinate the immigrant population thank you commissioners. >> thank you kres h christine for this report we have a couple of speakers signed up

(calling names) excuse me. if i mispronounced your name. hi carolyn come on up to the microphone you will be timed. >> so you can resign up any way you want everyone has two minutes so reranger yours. >> we don't bite not at this distance so come on up two minutes we'd love to hear you. >> good evening. i'm a

lecturer in the public department we offer health care services basically free generally free for the undocumented community in the bay area. i'm here in support of the resolution and thank you all for doing this and taking the steps you've taken already and we want to insure this doesn't remain a symbolic gesture we recognize there's a need for social services and we recognize that the school site is where the needs get met or not met we also wanted to stress there's a need for mental health services children are leaving violence in their home criticize and having trauma and telling they come to community that are different and

endure traumatic events here we say this is culturally appropriate and be expanded throughout the bay area at all levels of i'd like to say to say i came here i didn't mention that at the beginning but represent the movement for family reunification and members of the audience are here in support. i thank you, commissioner for taking the time to do this >> sorry. once again campground superintendant and commissioners i'm concerning the united quarter of san francisco we warmly welcome this resolution and the kind of services it will

provide for the vulnerable new students pr san francisco is a sanctuary city the city of is it fair to say and as many caveat do we take care of the children in need wherever they're from we're going to have a general membership meeting on thursday we will be there with a number of interims representing the communities and our members will be there tdr there to give generously in support of the kids stuck at the border. on a historical manner a little over one hundred years ago a girl land one side eric island was sick and snuck across lady liberty and labeled on the east side there was no school system ready to bring her in is he

self-taught herself english and made her way into the new country and i'm her grandson we can do no less then welcome the new wave of immigrants thank you. (clapping.) >> good evening, commissioners and superintendant quran i'm susan the vice president of the view sf. i know this isn't a hard sell for all of you that's one the good things in san francisco we're a sanctuary city the board of supervisors is sporting n notion and i have a feeling you will two at the conference this summer a similar resolution came up it wasn't as detailed it was meant as a national resolution and it did pass it's also good to get out of san francisco to find out what other people are

thinking. it passed pretty easily but not without controversy i wanted to tell you a little bit more about h s local 87 and her presentation at the council meeting there are 11 students ages 16 to 22 that are fascinating this week to bring attendance to the country at the border you can see them as the city hall and immigration office 5 days for young people to fast is pretty sobering. so if this crisis were happening in acknowledging another country or a commitment we know what we would be saying about those countries and borders they have to take care of those convicts it is what we have to do thank

you. (clapping.) >> hi, i'm josh davidson. we're also strongly in support of this resolution and warming welcome the new students that come into san francisco san francisco has a responsibility to hold up our city as an example for the rest of american for how we treat newcomers. we are glad we're in support of that thank you. i'd like to welcome if i may john dean the ucsf law school who has concluded the career serving president obama and looking forward to having him in san francisco >> good evening and commissioner on behalf of ucsf law school i want to acknowledge this resolution we're putting together a team of facilitate in terms of the legal recommendations which is

essential but all the children are waiting for their day in court and any beyond those will be resettled in san francisco we want to be able to support you the law school and the school of nursing and public health department we're helping to promote their successful resettlement in san francisco its our pledge to the resolution in the most and perhaps years ahead as the crisis continues. a number of us where in el safld in june and certainly the historic ties of the diversity and san francisco to el salvador i applaud our leadership in making this happen and we look

forward to working with you in the days and years ahead thank you (clapping.) my name is ed representing supervisor campos office along with paul rodriguez i want to start off by thanking commissioner haney and commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell for taking this on. we have to take care of the kids at the border. i'm happy that i went to el satisfied and they opened the doors and said come in in to my father he didn't know english but he graduated from ucsf this is one component to a larger larger solution i think the dean for step forward. we had the dean of the dental school saying what can we do to

help those kids the at least we can do is put a smile on their face there's a lot of resources here i appreciate you dedicating the office of supervisor campos can we have funds to have help this initiate a similar resolution was passed at the board of supervisors now we have it here in the school board and put pressure to get those kids a place and seat in education thank you very much. (clapping.) >> good evening commissioner i'm john. i'm here representing the san francisco latino democratic club. we're here to state our full support for the resolution in its desirability and we thank

for this step in the right direction >> okay. my turn? finally. good evening. commissioners. president fewer and commissioners you met with me over an hour in the month of june, i went to hindu demurs i called christina we've been meeting and in regards to thanking you especially commissioner haney for this resolution we completely support i have colleagues of mine from mission high school it's one the new comer pathway high schools. we all want to speak to the

support for those children but how it will look in my classroom when they enter a counselors office and meeting with parents i have two former students that want to speak about their experience so again, i want to express my gratitude for all our work and hoechl throughout the years but also support in the community as well. because we are here to serve those children and all of us have a part to play to following cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. me will be your counselors don who is our could you please state your name for our english learners and following her will be take care and he'll talk about the classroom situation and i have two